I don’t think that word means what you think it means

Kath & Kim’s Sharon Strezelecki, who tries hard to school US celebrity Kim Kardashian on the pronunciation of the word ‘nice’ in a TV advertising campaign, might be shocked to learn of its origins.

‘Nice’ – or, in Sharon’s particular brand of Strine, ‘noice’ – originates from the Latin verb ‘nescire’ (to be ignorant of), and it has only been over the past 700 or so years that it has come to mean what Sharon, aka Magda Szubanski, intends it to mean.